What injuries have you had

Adam k

Iv been riding about 3-4 years so pretty new to it but I fall of most times I ride iv only ever broken my toe that was about 8 weeks ago in Scotland where I slipped of the pedal and snapped my toe back.iv had a lot of pedals hitting shins as well and a good face plant in wales off the side of some north shore il upload some photos of them.

What injuries have you done ????

cooldad

Why would I want to look at pics of your scabby face?

estampida

make sure you have cum to bed eyes

and your mouth is open..... :roll:

Adam k

cooldad wrote:

Why would I want to look at pics of your scabby face?

You might like my face

giantAstax

Adam k wrote:

Iv been riding about 3-4 years so pretty new to it but I fall of most times I ride iv only ever broken my toe that was about 8 weeks ago in Scotland where I slipped of the pedal and snapped my toe back.iv had a lot of pedals hitting shins as well and a good face plant in wales off the side of some north shore il upload some photos of them.

What injuries have you done ????

Cycling.......

Broken arm
Badly damaged shoulder
Patellar tendonitis (both knees)
ITB damage
Hamstring damage/pull
Soft tissue damage to right hand (twice)
Numerous lacerations to legs, shins and knees caused by pedals, trees, gorse and assorted shrubbery
Concussion
Various grazes and bruises to face
Skin removal from lower left leg (extensive grazing)
Worn the skin of my @rse 3 times on epic 8hr + rides :oops:

Rugby.....

Broken finger
Paralysed for 2 days (no use of legs) after lower back injury
Hamstring pull
Knee ligament damage
Broken nose
Concussion
Groin strain
Twisted/sprained ankle
Over extended knee
Brused ribs

Don't think I missed anything

houston26

Car
Broken arm, broken rib, concussion, whiplash.

Bike
None.

And people say your safer in a car????

The Rookie

Cycling
Gravel rash off Leamington 4X track
Pierced inned upper arm (brake lever) nearly severing a muscle group, finished the second half at Cannock using my right hand to lift the left onto the bars, passenger had to change gear to drive home.
2 broken ribs, finished 6 miles of ride 'short breathing' off bike for 2 weeks, off MTB for 3.

thekickingmule

Cycling
Numerous lacerations to various parts of the body
Jarred wrist
Massively swollen arm (from Glentress, others know what I mean)
Damaged knee ligaments (damn clipless pedals)

Football
Broken arm
Cracked head

Running
Broken jaw/dislodged all teeth
Cracked head

Being me
Bit through tongue
Many, many other things

clamps81

Been riding about two years, the usual gashes, bumps, scrapes and so forth. Only ones worth mentioning are whatever it was I did to my shoulder last Jan at Cwmcarn - I didn't go to hospital, but probably should have as it's never been quite right since. Split my eyebrow region open on a rock in Italy last year and last November I got a bit enthusiastic on a solo weekday ride round Afan and bust my arm in two places. Had to walk two miles back to carpark and then drive home one handed in the van - suffice to say, not the most intelligent thing that I have ever done.

WindyG

Cycling
Broken 2ribs, 2 toes, 2 fingers
Gravel rash
Plenty of cuts and bruises

Normal life
Way too much to list, lots of A&E visits and some good scars to show for it.
I am a bit accident prone.

supersonic

Mostly shin vs pedals ie:

cj11

In no particular order...
Broken wrist
severed extensor tendon (thumb)
2 broken ribs
1 tooth
cracked pelvis (only hairline)
15 stitches in left shin, damn pedal pins.
Nothing serious , yet.

Adam k

supersonic wrote:

Mostly shin vs pedals ie:

Iv got one in same place but yours looks worse bloody pedals lol

2012



I did it again this year pedals always hit the same spot lol

Adam k

This one was my first SPD fail trying to do a wheelie whilst clipped in and goin to far over

Drzee

Last August, mate stayed with the van while I did one more loop, remember riding down a twisty trail and next thing waking up with a couple of riders around me. Not sure what happened, may have clipped a tree but used my face and shoulder to stop, breaking my nose with multiple bruising all over, ambulance to hospital strapped to stretcher, MRI scan, x-rays, broken bone in hand, 24 hours in hospital and operation on hand 2 weeks later with 6 weeks off work.

Still don't know what happened or how long knocked out for.

Thanks again to the guys who found me in Winterfold wood!

Simon

paul.skibum

sprained ankle
broken couple ribs
broken wrist
assorted cuts and bruises
indeterminate hip and knee damage
herniated disc

levolon

concussion , pedal rash , rotater cuff proper bastid that one. usual brambles and staby things

motorcycles caused far more injuries as did being a kid that loved danger lol fractures galore !!! well 13 anyway
had a few visits to the docs too from riding dodgy birds ?? but alcohol is solely to blame for that lol

Kowalski675

I need to stop reading this thread, as a newbie it's putting me off, lol. No injuries from MTB so far. Cut open lip and gum from face v wall incident on BMX as a kid. Broken collarbone from motorcycles.

notax

I rode for years with no significant injuries - including trips to the Alps etc... Then it all went wrong about four years ago when the back wheel came off my bike as I was riding fast but easy stuff in QE Park. Full speed into a tree, air ambulance job as they thought my neck was broken :shock: It wasn't. Phew.

Shattered wrist, broke arm, whiplash and concussion. Few months off work.

Got on the bike too soon for a trip to the Alps, had lost all muscle strength. Fell within a couple of hours and without the strength to fall well broke my thumb and tore the ligament, flew straight back to UK same hospital ward...

Got on bike too soon (see a theme) and went to Dartmoor for a long rock hopping ride but couldnt hold the bars properly. Result - pulled the ligaments off my elbow and it was ironically this pretty minor injury that took longest to recover from! Only now able to get back to weight training about three years later.

Also had another accident in the middle of the above - 15 minutes into an Alpine holiday. I thought I'd broken my neck but turned out to be pretty bad compression of the vertebrae. Whilst being X rayed they found I had broken my neck years earlier in a rally car crash without knowing it :shock:

levolon

Notax wrote:

I rode for years with no significant injuries - including trips to the Alps etc... Then it all went wrong about four years ago when the back wheel came off my bike as I was riding fast but easy stuff in QE Park. Full speed into a tree, air ambulance job as they thought my neck was broken :shock: It wasn't. Phew.

Shattered wrist, broke arm, whiplash and concussion. Few months off work.

Got on the bike too soon for a trip to the Alps, had lost all muscle strength. Fell within a couple of hours and without the strength to fall well broke my thumb and tore the ligament, flew straight back to UK same hospital ward...

Got on bike too soon (see a theme) and went to Dartmoor for a long rock hopping ride but couldnt hold the bars properly. Result - pulled the ligaments off my elbow and it was ironically this pretty minor injury that took longest to recover from! Only now able to get back to weight training about three years later.

Also had another accident in the middle of the above - 15 minutes into an Alpine holiday. I thought I'd broken my neck but turned out to be pretty bad compression of the vertebrae. Whilst being X rayed they found I had broken my neck years earlier in a rally car crash without knowing it :shock:

if someone says "break a leg mate " it would be a nice change for you id think
made me cringe some of them injuries ,and ive had a few breaks myself...
addictive this mtb lark

notax

Yes, I've been pretty lucky from the waist down! Touch wood the only scars down there are on my inner thigh strangely - competed at the Megavalanche last year and heading over the bars ripped my thigh a couple of times on my dropper post lever - about the only part of me not protected by armour :roll:

Just remembered another nasty injury - I was racing someone on the road on my mtb with a totally flat front tyre, it was the end of the ride so I couldn't be bothered to fix it. All was ok until I turned at high speed into the pub carpark. Tyre came straight off the rim and I used my bare arm as a brake Had to treated for burns, pretty odd - lots of plasma but very little blood. Probably a good place for me to stop in case I put anyone off their breakfast!

pilch

The worst injury I had was a bruised coccyx, did it the week before I went on holiday to venezuela... that's a 10hr flight and the longest i could sit in one position was a few minutes at a time, not the best of journeys

welshkev

knocked myself out twice

hurt both my shoulders, should probably have gone to hospital but didn't bother

sprained my wrist pretty badly that I thought it was broken on a ride with gazlar and northern monkey, then had to ride 11 or 12km home back over the mountain

general cuts and bruises, nothing major

estampida

well, over the last 24 years of biking, 20 years of skating and 18 of snowboarding...

broken toes - 3 left (Big and two next), 2 right (big and next to it)
Broken ankle - right
Knee dislocated - left (massive snowboard crash on big air ramp popped back in on second impact..)
ribs - left 3,4,5 at the same time (ow), right 4,5,6 ( right, were over a few years)
Broken left elbow
Shoulder dislocated - right (different snowboard crash on top of glas maol, had to board back to the car park..)
wrists - Scaphoid fractures / breaks - left stopped counting, right, stopped counting at a dozen or so.....
Collar bone, broken twice, now is constantly separated and I can stretch and it makes a very loud audible click
broken nose

these are nothing compared to the number of concussions, that is the long term worry, I used to go biking with a guy, he had 12 head x-rays in a year, that is almost radio therapy.... another one had 72 stitches to put his nose back on after a face plant....

and notax, a mate of mine had the same broken back found years later...... so most people are carrying damage that they do not know about...

frightening...

gavstorie

I have a recurring injury that seems to never get better.. Ever since I started riding again I have had a broken wallet.. It seems to get better slowly but then it takes a hammering and I am back to square one..

Think i should have taken up tiddlywinks :-)

rockmonkeysc

Mountain biking:
Two broken ribs
Broken Radius
Separated shoulder
Broken collar bone
Fractured shoulder blade
Dislocated shoulder (three times)
Broken little finger
Many, many flesh wounds

Rock climbing:
Broken ankle
Broken wrist
Slipped disc
Broken finger (six of them!)

Working (heavy steel fabrication):
Broken fingers (too many)
Crushed fingers (three fingers, 18 breaks)
Severed tendons in finger
Now I'm a design engineer, I once cut my finger on a staple.

The human body is too weak :shock:

Motley13

Been quite lucky soo far riding, mainly just had the classic bruises and cuts from things, got even worse since getting new pedals shins are mulit coloured and cut all the time now. Worse ive had was my last crash where i went over the handle bars and thought it was a good idea to land on my face rather than put my hands out to stop myself, ended up looking like the phantom of the opera due to the cuts on my face :roll:

angry_bird

Well, I've dislocated my right shoulder a few times, lost part of a tooth, countless gashes in the legs, broken nose, broken the big toe on my right foot. Broke one of the smaller ones too although I can't be sure if it was broken before I smashed my foot up or not.
2 broken fingers on the right handy and I put a big ass hole in the left side of my body over my pelvis the other month, I could get my fingers in and poke the bone. It's amazing how much adrenaline numbs the pain. The doctor disapproved, then did exactly the same thing but I guess he had sterile gloves on Several incidences of whiplash too.

Oh and I broke my ankle, but that wasn't bike related, that was playing tennis, in a separate incident I also chipped my right radius in training. Since starting uni I've fractured my jaw and had a couple of nice concussions from playing hockey :roll:

rgliniany

bikes...

concussions and scrapes from being run over twice..... separate occasions....
lost a tooth... broke nose at the bridge and right above my teeth.... maserated my top lip (all in one go)

climbing...

managed to come off a wall and put my ankle on a 90 degreeangle to what is classed as normal.... felt the bones arrange themself into the normal position when i lifted it up..... made me feel a little queasy..

lacrosse..... knocked out and chipped a tooth when a dude ran into me with my head down...

Clank

Angry Bird wrote:

and had a couple of nice concussions from playing hockey :roll:

Hockey - dangerous sport, that. Landed me in hospital twice, both times concussed - first time with a fractured eye socket, second time with a compressed skull fracture (them balls is hard!). I quit the sport after the second visit

Biking, I've only hurt myself on the road (including fractures to C4 and C5, a dislocated sturnum and broken ribs and wrist in one major off). F**k, I couldn't sneeze for a decade without wincing. Plus, my headbangin' days were kinda over. At this point, I started to wonder if injury was someone's way of telling me to stop doing stuff I was s**t at.

Aside from that I've bust fingers, toes, my coccxyx (just don't ask. Just don't ), little bones in my hands, my nose, and grenaded the top of my right arm (that one puzzled the quacks). Personally, on that score I consider myself quite lucky as I've known people who have had much, much worse (particulalrly when you read the rest of this thread!)

My worst injury however was many, many, moons ago. I awoke in hospital following a head injury sustained from (they beleive) me being hit with a brick, or some such. It cost me about eight years of memory.

rgliniany

jesus..... thats crazy about the memory thing..... im glad i have a thick skull...... bit like homer simpson syndrome.....

can i ask clank.... what is grenading your arm??? :?